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Why The Future Of Technology Is Simplicity
Posted on January 21, 2010. Filed under: Mobile Technology, Trends | Tags: 2010, cell phone, cellphone, Clay Shirky, communications trends, fear of technology, future of technology, global trend, industry trend, iPhone, iPod touch, mobile, mobile phone, new trend, simplicity, social mobile web, social trends, technology of the future, technophobia, techophobic, trend |
Do you enjoy trendspotting? I sure do. Hence those two recent blog posts: Communications Trends For 2010, Part 1 and Part 2. It’s time to move on to other topics. But before doing so, I wanted to share one more thought about what’s next. People who are not technologically inclined will determine the future of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 8 so far )Communications Trends For 2010 (Part 2)
Posted on January 19, 2010. Filed under: Communications Strategy, Trends | Tags: 2010, augmented reality, Autom Tagsa, brand strategy, Business Strategy, Communications Strategy, community building, corporate authenticity, file sharing, Google real-time search, integrity profile, interactive device, Jason Spector, marketing, Microsoft, Mobile Technology, online advertising, real-time, real-time search, social media dashboard, social trends, Strategic Communications, synthesis, transparency, Trends, Twitter |
January is prime time for crystal ball gazing. You know, looking into the future. And while we can’t predict all that’s yet to come, we can expect exciting times ahead. My previous post, Communications Trends For 2010 (Part 1), featured forecasts from several individuals whose ideas and opinions I greatly admire. They’re all deep thinkers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Communications Trends for 2010 (Part 1)
Posted on January 13, 2010. Filed under: Marketing and Public Relations, Trends, Web 2.0 | Tags: advertising, Beth Harte, building online community, communications, content filter, content strategy, from monologue to dialogue, Google, John Lichtenberger, knowledge curation, marketing, marketing trends, mobile strategy, online community, PR, public relations, Social Media, social search, Strategic Communications, tools, trend, Trends, Valeria Maltoni |
Does the start of a new year inspire you to think about the future? Me too. And what about those resolutions? Now comes the time to see if we really intend to keep them. Per my recent post, Why You Should Make A New Year’s Social Media Resolution, one of my goals is to be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Trend Watch: What is Lifestreaming?
Posted on September 29, 2009. Filed under: Social Media, Trends | Tags: aggregator site, blogging, blogs, digital life, emerging technology, Facebook, FriendFeed, Lifestrea.ms, lifestreaming, microblogging, online convergence, posterous, Profilactic, sharing, Social Media, social media trends, Trends, tumblr, Twitter |
There’s talk about how blogs are soon to be deceased in lieu of lifestreaming. The Doomsdayers believe the blog scene might as well be hooked up to a respirator: With notable exceptions given to big-shot bloggers and major blog sites that are already heavily entrenched in their respective market niches. I don’t buy it. I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )What’s Wrong With Being Real?
Posted on September 8, 2009. Filed under: Commentary, Trends | Tags: augmented reality, crowdsourcing, data mining, electronics, email, futuristic, gmail, innovation, invasion of privacy, Latent Semantic Indexing, next generation, privacy, quid pro quo, real-time web, search engine tracking, technology, virtual reality |
Last week I posted a piece about trends that are getting lots of attention. Which, in case you missed it, are real-time web, crowdsourcing and latent semantic indexing. Another trend I thought about including is augmented reality. A greater reality If you break it down linguistically, there’s “augmented,” which according to the American Heritage Dictionary [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Three Fast Growing Trends You Need To Pay Attention To
Posted on September 2, 2009. Filed under: Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Trends | Tags: asynchronous web, Bing, business trend, crowdsourcing, cutting-edge, fansourcing, innovation, Latent Semantic Indexing, LSI, mass collaboration, open innovation, organic search, real-time search, real-time web, Search Engine Optimization, search engine ranking, SEO, Twitter, web trend, wikinomics |
I enjoy listening to people postulate what will be the next big thing. These conversations make me feel like I’m in that scene from The Graduate where Mr. McGuire tells Benjamin Braddock he has just one word to say to him: “plastics.” So what’s the word of today that’s got a great future? Social media [...]
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Is This The New Model For Local Journalism?
Posted on February 11, 2010. Filed under: Commentary, Trends | Tags: analysis, Commentary, democracy, end of journalism, informed citizenry, innovation, investigative journalism, Metropolis, new model, news web site, news website, newspaper, Philadelphia, Tom Ferrick, Tom Ferrick Jr., traditional journalism, traditional media |
Tom Ferrick Jr., a former columnist and reporter covering government and politics for The Philadelphia Inquirer, believes the continuing demise of in-depth news coverage signals the loss of a check in our national system of checks and balances. After all, he asserts, democracy is a form of government that relies on an informed citizenry. So [...]
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